Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Germany wants are certain concessions which in the opinion of many people today cannot be obtained without war. She gave notice of her intention to resign from the League as a bluff to gain some of these concessions, but it is not certain that the bluff has failed. The concessions she wants are equality of armaments, either by Allied disarmament or by permission to rearm; the Saar Basin, the Polish Corridor, her former colonies and the Anschluss with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside...
...simple little character sketches which make up the body of the volume are of no monumental significance, but they are well done and gain much in atmosphere from the accompanying photographic studies of Miss Ulmann's. By centering her narratives around the lives and opinions of several colorful figures, here a benevolent old widower, there a noisy and witch-rapping harridan, Mrs. Peterkin has skillfully given a convincing portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly...
...Austro-German Anschluss depends now primarily upon whether the Nazi element in the Austrian Heimwehr can gain the upper hand," said Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...already powerless. The Nazis, who desire the annexation of Austria to Germany, are still organized and are becoming more and more aggressive. If the head of the Heimwehr, the Hapsburg Prince Starhemberg, who is against annexation, finds himself unable to control his men, then the Nazi element will gain the upper hand within the Heimwehr. And in this case, the movement towards immediate annexation of Austria by Germany will become unresisted, and official foreign intervention unavoidable...
...Mussolini wants to be friendly towards Hitler, and at the same time he wants to prevent Hitler from annexing Austria. he has helped as best he can both Hitler and Starhemberg to gain control of Germany and Austria respectively. And now he awaits the results of the victories of his proteges. He is like a cat who has given berths to two tigers...